Hy FatTony and guys, the transit system that I spent my career maintaining had a fleet of five Prevost buses. These buses had huge Spicer aluminum case four speed manual transmissions and Detroit Diesel 8V 71 engines. The engine/transmission was mounted so that the drive came into the differential from the rear, this made the transmission shift pattern backward, hard for some drivers to get used to. These buses were used to deliver students and staff to a university on top of a mountain, Simon Fraser University. These buses were kept on the road well past their "best by date" but we patched them up as best we could, their construction was primitive at best, we figured out that their rear exit door was an afterthought, just cut a hole in the structure and install some steps and hang on a door. They did their jobs in severe conditions for over twenty years!
